While in the past, 50-somethings would've rarely ventured out of the suburbs, now they are out in force every weekend—spreading broadsheet newspapers across vast expanses of every cafe's communal table.
Remarkably, every space is communal, devoted to forcing folks into that basic Southern social unit, the visit.
"There was a power struggle going on at every level, a communal struggle for power and resources.
Every meal was communal, which meant students, dozens of teachers (all but one a native speaker) and, in several cases, their families.
In an increasingly individualised world, sleep is also oddly communal: every time you drift off, you're entrusting yourself to your society – if only by your faith that no one will murder you in your sleep.
This government seems mindlessly wedded to the notion that every area of communal activity could be improved in the hands of the private sector, but the evidence across Whitehall barely supports it.
communal living; communalism". .
If we dared to preach in Jesus' words and follow his example across every facet of our communal lives, if the church were truly a community in perpetual revolution against the mores of the scarcity model, we'd have a staggering abundance of money, food, and shelter, a blue ocean of agents for reconciliation, justice, and peace converting from the warring gods of social Darwinism.
Every family has those communal stories, told over the years, until eventually, every member more or less believes they were in the room when it happened.
